From: Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Stanley Chang <stanley_chang@realtek.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] usb: core: avoid double use of 'usb3-phy'
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:02:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330-usb-avoid-usb3-phy-double-use-v1-1-d2113aecb535@gmail.com> (raw)
Commit 53a2d95df836 ("usb: core: add phy notify connect and disconnect")
causes double use of the 'usb3-phy' in certain cases.
Since that commit, if a generic PHY named 'usb3-phy' is specified in
the device tree, that is getting added to the 'phy_roothub' list of the
secondary HCD by the usb_phy_roothub_alloc_usb3_phy() function. However,
that PHY is getting added also to the primary HCD's 'phy_roothub' list
by usb_phy_roothub_alloc() if there is no generic PHY specified with
'usb2-phy' name.
This causes that the usb_add_hcd() function executes each phy operations
twice on the 'usb3-phy'. Once when the primary HCD is added, then once
again when the secondary HCD is added.
The issue affects the Marvell Armada 3700 platform at least, where a
custom name is used for the USB2 PHY:
$ git grep 'phy-names.*usb3' arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi | tr '\t' ' '
arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-37xx.dtsi: phy-names = "usb3-phy", "usb2-utmi-otg-phy";
Extend the usb_phy_roothub_alloc_usb3_phy() function to skip adding the
'usb3-phy' to the 'phy_roothub' list of the secondary HCD when 'usb2-phy'
is not specified in the device tree to avoid the double use.
Fixes: 53a2d95df836 ("usb: core: add phy notify connect and disconnect")
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@gmail.com>
---
drivers/usb/core/phy.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/phy.c b/drivers/usb/core/phy.c
index 4bba1c2757406a35bf19eb7984a2807212374d18..4d966cc9cdc9510147041df7875ad9e48a9ea3af 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/phy.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_phy_roothub_alloc);
struct usb_phy_roothub *usb_phy_roothub_alloc_usb3_phy(struct device *dev)
{
struct usb_phy_roothub *phy_roothub;
- int num_phys;
+ int num_phys, usb2_phy_index;
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY))
return NULL;
@@ -124,6 +124,16 @@ struct usb_phy_roothub *usb_phy_roothub_alloc_usb3_phy(struct device *dev)
if (num_phys <= 0)
return NULL;
+ /*
+ * If 'usb2-phy' is not present, usb_phy_roothub_alloc() added
+ * all PHYs to the primary HCD's phy_roothub already, so skip
+ * adding 'usb3-phy' here to avoid double use of that.
+ */
+ usb2_phy_index = of_property_match_string(dev->of_node, "phy-names",
+ "usb2-phy");
+ if (usb2_phy_index < 0)
+ return NULL;
+
phy_roothub = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*phy_roothub), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!phy_roothub)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
---
base-commit: f50200dd44125e445a6164e88c217472fa79cdbc
change-id: 20260329-usb-avoid-usb3-phy-double-use-7e498373073c
Best regards,
--
Gabor Juhos <j4g8y7@gmail.com>
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